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Inner drive + injustice of not being recognized = Supermax Contract But I've had enough of this fear of attention. "I don't care about praise". OK, that's good for you. What I sense instead is resistance. Resistance of glory. Resistance of too much success. Fear of success, even. A lack of trust in your team to perform under the brightest of lights. Why else would a person prefer to be "under the radar" instead of getting the props they deserve? Not healthy IMO. Bigger than a Bills problem, it's a Buffalo problem.

A very common reflex response I hear around here is "Who cares", "you're so sensitive!", "I like being the underdog!", "ignore them". Well let me tell you, I believe it is not normal for a person to ignore disrespect. If you stand up for yourself, and somebody says one of the above statements, you need to ignore them. As the Bills slowly become an elite team year after year (due in no small part to Josh Allen), the fanbase will begin shedding low self-esteem beliefs such as "I like being under the radar" and "haha look how these stupid fans care about what the country says about us". There is no better feeling than winning in front of the country and getting praise. To pretend it doesn't matter, is lunacy. As if we're all a bunch of monks living in the mountains. Trust me, I lurk on this board a lot. Wisdom is a scarce resource here. What makes it worse is seeing players like Lamar Jackson, Tua, Wentz, Murray, Mayfield, Herbert, etc. getting instant national praise their rookie years while we need to move mountains just to get a little positive attention. I saw a poster above mention that Allen doesn't care what the media says. Let me tell you, that if he didn't care what people said about him, he would've busted out of the league already. The reason Allen is carrying the Bills to glory right now, is because he won't stand for the injustice that is public opinion of his playing. He knew how good he was and could be, he knew how poor the team was around him while the QBs placed on pedestals are surrounded by all-pros. Let me say that I can't stand the ball-washing that teams like the Cowboys get every year, simply because I don't believe they deserve it. But nothing incenses me more than seeing an incredible story being ignored and then insulted by fools. The Buffalo fanbase should pull out pitchforks against PFF, FO, Bomani Jones, etc. They dished it out, but can't take it. They were exposed as frauds and clowns. And people want to ignore this, even worse, insult fellow fans that are upset about continuing lack of respect? Talk about having your priorities mixed up. I think it's pretty clear by all that this poster is a clown with a strong personality. Put him on ignore. Edit: talking about biscuit, not stank_nasty

This explains why he looked a little nervous to me at the game Monday night. He wasn't his "I got this shiz" self. Great move. Beane truly is a wizard. As someone who is in business, I am awed by those at the top that can share a vision strongly and stick by it. Usually egos get involved, but not here. They knew exactly what they wanted and they've gone through with it. They are always willing to make the right sacrifice.

The haters always say stuff like "believe me, I'll be the first one to congratulate him".

Well said. This new narrative of "the coaching and organization is what made Josh Allen" is just side-stepping for those that were so off about Allen. "I wasn't wrong about Allen, it was just the organization has managed him so well!" What a boring narrative! How about "Allen proves all doubters pathetically wrong and is becoming an absolute superstar QB who is exciting to watch". We will see the new narrative collapse once Daboll gets a job somewhere else and Allen continues to defy expectations.

Great stuff. This sort of data is tough to nail down, so I appreciate you finding something within the vicinity of the bullseye. The analytics back up what those with a "good eye" can see, which is that McBeane always seem to make the correct, savvy move. The perfect mix of patience, long-term strategy, foundation first, faith, and shrewdness (a good shrewdness). That kind of decision-making is not based in analytics, believe it or not. It is based in intuitive-thinking, with analytics simply being a supplementary source. A nice combination of right brain/left brain thinking. Rare, but wherever it is found, the people who have it are at the top of their professions. The most competent bunch. I'd like to play Beane in a chess match one day. I have a feeling he would be good at it.

You want to know how Patrick Mahomes would be in Buffalo if we drafted him? He would be Jack Eichel. A superstar player stuck on a team he can't take over the hump. The national media and fans would be clamoring for him to leave Buffalo and go to a team he can win with. Even now, nobody gives Josh Allen the credit he deserves. He proved himself in an impossible situation. To this day, Mahomes hasn't faced 10% the adversity that Allen faced in year one.

All it takes is one ESPN beat reporter to pick this up and it can go viral and end in sanctions for the team, not to mention the benching of our entire DB for a winnable game tomorrow. Can't stand people like this.

That's your opinion of what he's doing. I have mine.

What a traitor. I hope he loses his media pass. Throwing the team under the bus to score Twitter points.

Let's go Touchdown Jesus!

Bunch of losers! Believe in your team or go find a new one. Too many low quality posters on this board.

"They are rich, thus you are wrong". Common idiots on this board. I'm out. Go support your masters.

"Kim Pegula is a poor businesswoman" = "Sexist! No other possible explanation!" "He's richer than you thus you are wrong" Thank you for offering a rebuttal. For whatever reason the older fans on this board are the only ones with remotely any wisdom. Housley was easy to sniff out from the first interview if you have the eye for it. Weak personality. Should never have been hired. Botterill was more insidious I'll give you that. But something was funny during his 1st year, and by year 2 it was obvious to anybody with any common sense. Now it's just embarrassing. Great response!

Again. No rebuttals. Only insults.

Whatever. Not one person can offer any sort of rebuttal. Truth hurts.

Terry might be a very competent fracker. I don't know, that's not my field. But based on the way he runs his sports team, I would never hire him above a technical position. He should not have any people under management. There's nothing else I can conclude other than the Pegulas lucked into a major asset with a clear valuation.

Great post. If only the world was as simple as you think it is. Loser mentality.

Speaking as someone who has a business acumen, Kim is absolute trash. ' The faster the people of Buffalo stop virtue signaling and pretending she's anything other than a rich man's wife, the faster the Sabres problems will be solved. Natural business instincts are not common. You cannot just give a prominent position to somebody who has not yet proven worthy. Terry in particular has been exposed during this Sabres debacle. They are both lucky billionaires. Incompetent. Zero eye for talent. Zero sense of what's going on around them. I will never understand how they lucked into McDermott and Beane. Beane in particular is a rare genius for his position. I pray they don't screw it up.

You forgot about the upcoming sanctions for Spygate 2.0. Could cost them a high draft pick.

How often does copycatting work? Follow your own path. We have a good one.

I'll also add, what does it say about the process if we sign good character guys, watch them outperform their contracts, and then refuse to pay them when it's time. How will the other players view the team? Will they play as hard? Will they start seeing Buffalo as a bridge to another team who pays them? How will we be any different to how we were during the drought, letting players like Jason Peters and Stephon Gilmore go to greener pastures. I don't think it's a question that you resign Poyer. We have the 3rd most cap in the league. Everyone talks a big game about retaining talent. Here's a dude that gave everything he had for 3 years leading us to the best heights we've seen in 20 years. He misses a couple tackles late in the year and now people want to pretend he's trash so they don't have to pay him? I hope we're not that kind of organization.

You don't mess with chemistry. Would be an epic blunder to let Poyer go.

I love it. The ridiculousness of our accepted reality being exposed by OBJ. Who's the bad guy? The guy handing out cash to a bunch of college kids celebrating a national championship? The kids smoking cigars in the locker room while celebrating? OBJ for slapping a cop on the butt who is on a power trip during the greatest moment of the kids' lives? Everyone needs to loosen up. Including some people in this thread. I thought it was awesome. The cops and the NCAA are the party poopers here.

"He never had a chance with the team around him" is the same thing we would be saying about Josh Allen if he sucked. Except he overcame it. Rosen didn't. Not even a sliver.